10 Best Video Game Pirates

Vyse had all the perfect aspirations to being a sky pirate (unlike that dork, Vaan). Thus, he kicks off our list of the 10 Best Video Game Pirates.

Pirate's Day is coming to Azeroth next month, so we're paying homage to the queen of the Goonies-inspired Deadmines, Vanessa Vancleef.

After being exiled from his home country and losing an eye, Bart became a sand-pirate whose Gear (a gundam-like robot) actually had an ocular motor removed so it could visibly match its owner. Bart even became a full-fledged sea pirate afterwards.

Instead of having Zelda as the traditional, helpless damsel-in-distress, Nintendo did a 180 by introducing Wind Waker's main female as the badass pirate, Tetra.

"Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is?"

He was a pirate, he was a ghost pirate, and then he was an undead pirate possessed by the Soul Edge. Either way, Cervantes has had rum in his blood for eons and is why he's on our list of the 10 Best Video Game Pirates.

The first Donkey Kong Country showed how much of a master thief King K. Rool was. But DKC 2 showed why -- because he was a pirate.

Balthier was so awesome that he almost made up for the lameness of Vaan. Balthier was a ballin' sky pirate with a foxy Viera that he kept as a wench... err, partner.

Ridley is a leader of Space Pirates who completely eradicated Samus' home planet. He nearly tops our list because he is both a giant dragon and a space pirate. Two cool things in one great package!

That's right... gamers top our list of the 10 Best Video Game Pirates. Why? Think of the astronomical amount of torrenting and illegal downloading of games that occur every single day. Piracy pretty much sank the Sega Dreamcast (which was Sega's fault for making their games playable when burnt to CD-Rs), and dropped Sega out of the console business. Stop illegally downloading games, you scumbag pirates.